It is no secret that we are a country divided amongst ourselves. It has really become an absolutely pitiful situation.
As I bet you have heard by now, our Sovereign Nation is about to have a 250th Birthday Celebration.
It’s going to be a spectacular event with entertainment ranging from a mixed martial arts fight on the law of the White House to music and special speakers.
The entire country will be tuning in on their TV sets at home.
Please allow me to ask you something:
If you were a well-known performer and this Administration asked you to perform at this once in a lifetime event, would you turn them down because you don’t happen to like the person sitting in the Oval Office?
Well, I’m not a well-known singer, but I have been known to post my singing on Facebook. If I were in that position, I would not only say yes, I would say heck yeah!
Most red blooded Americans would.
In the past, performers would perform for the president at galas and banquets because they felt it was an honor to be asked.
Some of the performers, including Martina McBride, who had been asked to perform at the 250th Birthday Celebration have turned down that opportunity
The self- indulgence and runaway political hatred and animas that the Democratic Party, through their Trump Derangement Syndrome and non-stop venomous propaganda, have spread among a section of Americans like an infectious disease, blurring the lines between right and wrong and what is and is not acceptable behavior.
The Trump Administration has said that the celebration will be fine and it will be easy to find performers who want to be a part of it.
That sounds great to me.
It’s going to be an awesome 250th Birthday Celebration of the greatest country on the face of the Earth.
“Memorial Day isn’t just about honoring veterans, its honoring those who lost their lives. Veterans had the fortune of coming home. For us, that’s a reminder of when we come home we still have a responsibility to serve. It’s a continuation of service that honors our country and those who fell defending it.” – Secretary of War Pete Hegseth
As I sat down to write today’s post, I tried to think about something pithy to write. Then, I realized that today is not a day for witticisms and sarcasm.
I thought about all of the American lives, all of the brave men and women who have sacrificed their lives out of love and devotion for our Sovereign Nation and their fellow Americans, both their comrades and their families back home.
The unselfish devotion shown by these brave Americans is made fun of and remains the source of derision by many devotees of the anti-American political philosophy who consider themselves to be the “smartest people in the room”.
These same “enlightened” individuals consider “patriotism” to be a bad word.
They have replaced it with words like “nationalism” and “jingoism”.
The devotees of this political philosophy do not believe in American Exceptionalism.
They believe that America is “just another country,” certainly not worthy of sacrificing their lives for.
These people just don’t get it.
Freedom is not free.
That is why brave men and women of the past and the present age have fought and died while wearing the uniforms of our Armed Forces.
When they went into battle, they did not just represent their hometowns… They represented all of us.
From the germ of an idea to the greatest country on the face of God’s green Earth, this country has stood strong because of resolute men and women who were willing to “pledge their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor” to protect “The Shining City Upon a Hill”.
Today, standing up and being vocal in our opposition to those who would “radically change” EVERYTHING that these American Heroes and Heroines fought and died for is our “charge to keep.”
Because…
“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” – John 15:13-17
May God bless and comfort the families of our Fallen Heroes, and may their memories and our American Freedom endure.
Here is a song by the great Trace Adkins that honors them and the special place where they are laid to rest.
“Memorial Day isn’t just about honoring veterans, its honoring those who lost their lives. Veterans had the fortune of coming home. For us, that’s a reminder of when we come home we still have a responsibility to serve. It’s a continuation of service that honors our country and those who fell defending it.” – Pete Hegseth
As I sat down to write today’s post, I tried to think about something pithy to write. Then, I realized that today is not a day for witticisms and sarcasm.
I thought about all of the American lives, all of the brave men and women who have sacrificed their lives out of love and devotion for our Sovereign Nation and their fellow Americans, both their comrades and their families back home.
The unselfish devotion shown by these brave Americans is made fun of and remains the source of derision by many devotees of the anti-American political philosophy who consider themselves to be the “smartest people in the room”.
WThese same “enlightened” individuals consider “patriotism” to be a bad word.
They have replaced it words like “nationalism” and “jingoism”.
The devotees of this political philosophy do not believe in American Exceptionalism.
They believe that America is “just another country”, certainly not worthy of sacrificing their lives for.
These people just don’t get it.
Freedom is not free.
That is why brave men and women of the past and the present age have fought and died while wearing the uniforms of our Armed Forces.
When they went into battle, they did not just represent their hometowns…they represented all of us.
From the germ of an idea to the greatest country on the face of God’s green Earth, this country has stood strong because of resolute men and women who were willing to “pledge their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor” to protect “The Shining City Upon a Hill”.
Today, standing up and being vocal in our opposition to those who would “radically change” EVERYTHING that these American Heroes and Heroines fought and died for is our “charge to keep”.
Because…
“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” – John 15:13-17
May God bless and comfort the families of our Fallen Heroes, and may their memories and our American Freedom endure.
This past week, Lynette Adkins, an online personality and pro-Palestinian activist, came out defending her right to post Osama bin Laden’s “A Letter to America” on the popular China-originated social media platform Tik Tok. Adkins has since been banned from the platform, and the source of the post “The Guardian” has removed it since posting it in 2002.
In the letter to America, bin Laden justified al-Qaeda’s attacks against the U.S.
“Palestine, which has sunk under military occupation for more than 80 years. The British handed over Palestine, with your help and your support, to the Jews, who have occupied it for more than 50 years; years overflowing with oppression, tyranny, crimes, killing, expulsion, destruction and devastation,” bin Laden alleged.
Adkins urged her 175,000 followers to read to words of the Radical Islamic Terrorist who slaughtered over 3,000 Americans:
“TikTok is going to save this generation,” Adkins said. “The amount of things that we’ve learned on this app in this past month alone that other people in other generations I tried to talk to them about it, they don’t understand. They don’t get it because they’ve been literally so programmed to think a certain way, TikTok is undoing all of that. It’s crazy to watch in real time.”
“If you haven’t already, go read ‘A Letter to America,'” she added.” (Quotes Courtesy FoxNews.com)
I find it frightening that a Chinese Data-mining operation disguised as a social media platform is being so successful in spreading the Societal Rot of Cultural Marxism across our Sovereign Nation.
It’s not so much that this idiot’s sponsorship and championing of the words of the radical Islamic Terrorist Mastermind behind the slaughter of over 3,000 Americans on September 11, 2001 makes me mad, although it does, it’s the fact that the Chinese seem to have finally found a way to stab a dagger in the heart of traditional American Faith and Values.
It is blatant propaganda like this that has caused patriotism to be called “White Nationalism” and the Great Melting Pot to become the Tower of Babylon.
What made America the greatest country on the face of the Earth for Generations was a shared sense of love, unity, and pride among average Americans, the people who vote and send representatives to Washington, DC.
Americans had the common sense to know who our allies were and who our enemies were.
This generation is being taught that our allies are our enemies and our enemies are our allies.
When former President Donald J Trump recites the poem and song “The Snake” at his rallies, he leaves no doubt as to what it means for America. We see the results around us every day.
As Lynette Adkins illustrates so emphatically, our country’s enemies live among us.
Make no mistake, I am a proponent of free speech. However, I am also a Christian American Patriot who will continue to exercise MY right to free speech by calling out the enemies of this country who seek to destroy us from within by turning this country into something that it was never meant to be.
Yesterday, I posted about our brave Americans who have fought for our country in wars and have served in peacetime.
It got me thinking about the state of America in 2023.
The politicians who are running this country are installing the same political ideologies and punitive fascism that America’s veterans fought against.
The “Wokeness” which they have been pushing for the last few years is censorship of thought. If you don’t think the way that they want you to, you are ignorant and a “Nationalist”.
Which is funny because that is what we used to call Patriotism.
Our veterans are Patriots.
Professional politicians, living in their bubble in Washington, DC, have installed a hierarchy which our Founding Fathers never meant to exist in our Constitutional Republic.
George Orwell, in his book “Animal Farm,” put it in a way in which he expressed that “some animals are more equal than others.”
Our Founders believed that we were all the same with Inalienable Rights, which included “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
Now, in “Woke” America, those who want to remain in power by any means necessary believe in “abortion, Political Lawfare, and anti-Semitism.”
It took the past few decades of indoctrination and programming in our Public School Systems to get here. Just like it took fascist totalitarian Marxists years to convince useful idiots in counties in Eastern Europe and South America that “The State” would provide for them “from cradle-to-grave.”
We all know how that turned out, don’t we?
Marxism has failed in every single country it was installed in. That is why we’ve got people fleeing those Hellholes trying to break into our country across our Southern Border.
As far as abortion is concerned, as a Christian, I believe that life begins a conception.
Fetus is Latin for BABY.
The Political Lawfare, which is being waged against the leading candidate in the 2024 Presidential Election, by the ruling political party, is unconstitutional and a strategy used by Marxist governments to maintain their power over the Proletariat.
So, why is all this violent anti-semitism being allowed?
For a totalitarian government to exist, average citizens must be made to not trust one another and must be in conflict with each other.
If Americans were united, like we were in the past, with a love of country and a shared spirit of patriotism and love for our fellow Americans, like that which caused our veterans to give their all to protect this Sovereign Nation, all these evil and immoral politicians and “political activists” would not have a chance to do the damage that they have done to our country.
Is it too late for america?
Well, all I know is that nothing is impossible with God and for God, but there will have to be a massive return to traditional American faith and values for this country to thrive again.
And, right now, America’s useful idiots are embracing everything that our veterans fought against.
“The strength of a nation lies in the homes of its people.” – Abraham Lincoln
If you have been paying attention to what has been happening in our Sovereign Nation since the installation of “President” Joe Biden, you have witnessed clueless arrogant Far Left Local and National Democrat Politicians, celebrities and professional athletes acting like a bunch of spoiled ungrateful, miserable wannabe Marxists.
These “Ungrateful Miserables” if you will, aided by the Biden-Harris Administration, continue to attempt to erase our nation’s history through their attempts to introduce a fictional version of our nation’s history into the curriculum of public school systems and universities, in order to further divide our nation through Cultural Marxism.
Those who are leading this movement to “radically change” this “Shining City Upon a Hill” into a Third World Marxist country echo the sentiments of the 44th President of the United States of America, Barack Hussein Obama, and the rest of the Far Left self-proclaimed geniuses who cost the Democratic Party the Presidency in 2016 and who cheated their way into the White House in 2020.
These “Ungrateful Miserables” believe that anybody who works hard for a living and believes in God and Country is a Jingoistic imbecile.
According to the dictionary, Jingoism is an extreme chauvinism or nationalism marked especially by a belligerent foreign policy.
In other words, being guilty of believing that America is the greatest country on the face of God’s Green Earth and believing in American Exceptionalism.
For the past 2 decades at least, children and young adults, attending American Institutes of Learning, from kindergarten to college campuses, have been taught by Liberal teachers and professors that America is “just another country” and to be a patriot is to somehow be close-minded, ignorant, and bigoted, not necessarily in that order.
Evidently, the overeducated imbeciles who planned this Marxist uprising that we have witnessed over the last several years have never understood in their ungrateful little lives what has made and continues to make our country exceptional.
Where the exceptionalism of America lies…is not in the Halls of Power…nor in the Halls of Academia. But, rather in the courage and spirit of the average American. A courage and spirit, which our history proves, has driven American citizens to build a nation, which is indeed exceptional among all others.
The secret of this country’s exceptionalism is the “Average Joe”, the 9 to 5′er, working himself into the grave to try to provide for his family.
It was this same “Average Joe”, who fired the shot heard around the world and began the War for American Independence, who stormed the beaches of Normandy on D-Day in World War II, who waded through rice paddies in Vietnam, and who swallowed sand in Desert Storm and Desert Shield. The same “Average Joe” who, as a New York City Policeman or Fireman, ran up the stairs of the World Trade Center on 9/11/01 instead of running down them. The same “Average Joe”, who simply wants things to be easier in this life for his children and grandchildren, than he had it.
It is this same “Average Joe”, who takes family and friends in, when they are in the midst of a life-altering tragedy. The same “Average Joe”, who volunteers on a soup line or at a Senior Citizens Home, or who begins a successful business in his basement.
And, it is this same “Average Joe” who, being fed up with the Democratic Party’s Far Left Crusade against anything and everything traditionally American, went to the voting booth and elected Donald J. Trump, a Citizen Statesman, as our 45th President.
And that, boys and girls, is why, on this 4th of July, almost 7 years after average Americans watched with a sense of prideful accomplishment as Donald J. Trump took the Oath of Office, Modern American Liberals are still showing the world their posteriors while continuing to throw the longest mass temper tantrum in recorded history, even though they “won” the 2020 Presidential Election.
Their ego-driven political ideology does not permit them to consider the reality that theirs is still the minority political ideology in this nation, a Far Left Fascist political ideology which none but a small minority on the Far Left of the Political Spectrum embrace.
While the East and “Left” Coast are indeed heavily-populated in their metropolitan areas with Liberals (some of them even Legal Citizens), the reality of what actually happened on November 8th, 2016 can been plainly seen on any Electoral Map.
As George Orwell said,
“Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.”
So, to summarize, by embracing Marxism, by labeling Patriotism as “Jingoism”, and by ridiculing and accusing those of us who love our country and hold fast to Traditional American Values as being “racists”, the Democratic Party are well into the process of ruining this country, and making average Americans so mad that they are fighting back by showing up to school board meetings and speaking out against the Democrat-driven Cultural Marxism which they are attempting to brainwash our children with.
The anti-American arrogance of the “Ungrateful Miserables” comprising the Democratic Party has already cost them the House of Representatives. The way things are progressing, it will not only cost them the Presidency…it will also cost them the Senate, as well.
If I was a Modern American Liberal with any sort of self-awareness, I would be ashamed of disrespecting both my flag and my country.
Unfortunately, the Far Left “Democratic Socialists” who have taken over the once mainstream Democratic Party and who guide poor old, demented Joe Biden are not self-aware.
It is this lack of self-awareness that is allowing average Americans to witness the beginning of the implosion and political extinction of the Democratic Party right before our very eyes.
In the opinion of this 64-year-old, sitting in the Northwest corner of the Magnolia State in America’s Heartland, Modern American Liberals, and their ideological leaders, who trod the Halls of Power with impunity, underestimate the American Spirit, just as King George and the British Aristocracy did, so many years ago.
As our enemies, both foreign and domestic, have discovered since the birth of our nation, Americans will fight for our freedom.
We showed this fact to the world on November 8th, 2016.
And now, almost 7 years later, thanks to the arrogant overreach of the Far Left Ideologues who are controlling Joe Biden, his Administration and the Democrat Politicians on Capitol Hill, the citizens of our Sovereign Nation are beginning to once again rise like a phoenix from its ashes and are preparing to SAVE AMERICA!
May God bless you and your family on this 4th of July, the Year of Our Lord, 2023, and may God Bless America.
 Memorial Day isn’t just about honoring veterans, its honoring those who lost their lives. Veterans had the fortune of coming home. For us, that’s a reminder of when we come home we still have a responsibility to serve. It’s a continuation of service that honors our country and those who fell defending it. – Pete Hegseth Today is a day of solemn remembrance, during which we honor our fallen heroes. Memorial Day, originally called Decoration Day, is a day of remembrance for those who have died in our nation’s service. There are many stories as to its actual beginnings, with over two dozen cities and towns laying claim to being the birthplace of Memorial Day. There is also evidence that organized women’s groups in the South were decorating graves before the end of the Civil War: a hymn published in 1867, “Kneel Where Our Loves are Sleeping” by Nella L. Sweet carried the dedication “To The Ladies of the South who are Decorating the Graves of the Confederate Dead” (Source: Duke University’s Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920). While Waterloo N.Y. was officially declared the birthplace of Memorial Day by President Lyndon Johnson in May 1966, it’s difficult to prove conclusively the origins of the day. It is more likely that it had many separate beginnings; each of those towns and every planned or spontaneous gathering of people to honor the war dead in the 1860’s tapped into the general human need to honor our dead, each contributed honorably to the growing movement that culminated in Gen Logan giving his official proclamation in 1868. It is not important who was the very first, what is important is that Memorial Day was established. Memorial Day is not about division. It is about reconciliation; it is about coming together to honor those who gave their all. Memorial Day was officially proclaimed on 5 May 1868 by General John Logan, national commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, in his General Order No. 11, and was first observed on 30 May 1868, when flowers were placed on the graves of Union and Confederate soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery. The first state to officially recognize the holiday was New York in 1873. By 1890 it was recognized by all of the northern states. The South refused to acknowledge the day, honoring their dead on separate days until after World War I (when the holiday changed from honoring just those who died fighting in the Civil War to honoring Americans who died fighting in any war). It is now celebrated in almost every State on the last Monday in May (passed by Congress with the National Holiday Act of 1971 (P.L. 90 – 363) to ensure a three day weekend for Federal holidays), though several southern states have an additional separate day for honoring the Confederate war dead: January 19 in Texas, April 26 in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and Mississippi; May 10 in South Carolina; and June 3 (Jefferson Davis’ birthday) in Louisiana and Tennessee.
As I sat down to write today’s post, I tried to think about something pithy to write. Then, I realized that today is not a day for witticisms and sarcasm.
I thought about all of the American lives, all of the brave men and women who have sacrificed their lives out of love and devotion for our Sovereign Nation and their fellow Americans, both their comrades and their families back home.
The unselfish devotion shown by these brave Americans is made fun of and remains the source of derision by many devotees of the anti-American political philosophy who consider themselves to be the “smartest people in the room”.
These same “enlightened” individuals consider “patriotism” to be a bad word.
They have replaced it words like “nationalism” and “jingoism”.
The devotees of this political philosophy do not believe in American Exceptionalism.
They believe that America is “just another country”, certainly not worthy of sacrificing their lives for.
These people just don’t get it.
Freedom is not free.
That is why brave men and women of the past and the present age have fought and died while wearing the uniforms of our Armed Forces.
When they went into battle, they did not just represent their hometowns…they represented all of us.
From the germ of an idea to the greatest country on the face of God’s green Earth, this country has stood strong because of resolute men and women who were willing to “pledge their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor” to protect “The Shining City Upon a Hill”.
Today, standing up and being vocal in our opposition to those who would “radically change” EVERYTHING that these American Heroes and Heroines fought and died for is our “charge to keep”.
Because…
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. – John 15:13-17
May God bless and comfort the families of our Fallen Heroes and may their memories and our American Freedom endure.
“The parents of a ninth grade South Carolina student who said she was accosted by a teacher for quietly walking to class instead of stopping and reciting the Pledge of Allegiance are suing the teacher, principal, school district and state education officials.
Marissa Barnwell said she was walking quietly to class and decided not to stop for the pledge or a moment of silence that followed. A teacher yelled at her, confronted her and pushed her against a wall.
Barnwell was then sent to the principal’s office, which she said was humiliating because she feared she was in trouble. The principal promised to look at the video of the encounter and sent her back to class, but Barnwell said he never let her know that the teacher was wrong and she was right.
“I was completely and utterly disrespected,” Barnwell, 15, said at a news conference Thursday, according to The State newspaper. “No one has apologized, no one has acknowledged my hurt. … The fact that the school is defending that kind of behavior is unimaginable.”
Barnwell’s parents are suing the River Bluff High School teacher, the principal, Lexington School District 1, and the South Carolina Education Department in federal court, saying they violated the girl’s civil rights and her First Amendment rights to both free speech or not to speak at all.
A state law passed more than 30 years ago requires public schools to play the Pledge of Allegiance at a specific time every day.
But that law also prohibits punishing anyone who refuses to recite the pledge as long as they are not disruptive or infringe on others.
“The thing that’s beautiful about America is we have freedoms,” said Tyler Bailey, the family’s lawyer. “Students in our schools should feel safe, they should not feel threatened for exercising their constitutional rights.” (Courtesy Newsmax.com)
I remember back in elementary school, every morning we began by singing “Oh, What a Beautiful Morning” and then, reciting The Pledge of Allegiance. Even remembering that ritual today, I find comfort in it.
In the South, at least in the Mississippi County in which I live, the school day still begins with the recitation of the Pledge, which is led by a group of students, standing around a microphone in the Principal’s Office.
Unfortunately, that is no longer the case in many schools around our blessed land.
Good old-fashioned American Patriots are now considered by Woke Far Left Democrats to be “White Nationalists”
So, what is the cause of this 180 degree turn from where we were, as a mostly cohesive society, based on love of God and Country, which I remember so fondly from my childhood, to where we are now as a country divided and compromised, to a certain extent, of individuals, who believe in relative morality, situational ethics, and a malleable Constitution.
Learned individuals have been trying to discern exactly what has caused this societal and cultural decline, and in the process, they have blamed it on everything from poor schools to poverty to malnutrition.
Being a simple man, (Hey, that would make a great title for a rock song. Oh, wait. It was. Never mind.) I believe that because Americans have wanted, for at least 3 generations now, to give their children everything materialistically possible.
They have to a great extent, ignored teaching their children both how to discern between right and wrong and how to be grateful for living in the Greatest Country on the Face of the Earth. A country that provides them with endless opportunities and advantages…like college scholarships.
God’s Word tells us that we, as parents, should “Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.” – Proverbs 22:6 (ESV)
What these ungrateful parents and their teenager do not understand is the fact that the exceptionalism of America lies not in the Halls of Power but in the courage and spirit of the average American. A courage and spirit, which our history proves, has driven American citizens to build a nation which is indeed exceptional among all others.
A nation which they are free to leave anytime they wish, in order to find one in which they will not feel so “oppressed.”
: a naive or credulous person who can be manipulated or exploited to advance a cause or political agendaIt is one task of the KGB [in 1982] to apply its skills of secrecy and deception to projecting the Soviet party’s influence. This it does through contacts with legal Communist Parties abroad, with groups sympathetic to Soviet goals, with do-gooders of the type that Lenin once described as “useful idiots” … .— The Wall Street Journal
For a while now, ever since the Democrats started actively embracing the Marxist Idology of the Far Left of the Political Spectrum, I have been writing about the similarity between this Political Movement and the Russian Revolution.
I’ve dubbed those who would riot, destroying property, burning cities and assaulting average Americans, “New Bolsheviks”.
As anyone who has actually picked up a book and read about history knows, Vladimir Lenin rose to power in Russia by overthrowing the Czar and murdering him and his entire family with the help of the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks, brutal people who did his dirty work…his “useful idiots “.
Right now, the interal division and destruction of our country, as we know it, is being facilitated by a bunch of useful idiots.
The rise of America’s Useful Idiots happened in a similar fashion to the wat that it did back in the days of the Russian Revolution.
Political ideogues promised unbridled freedom, the ability to pursue any sort of deviant behavior that the useful idiots wanted to participate in with no consequences, and, most importantly, they promised FREE MONEY.
The useful idiots had already been indrinated in our public schools through the teaching of Cultural Marxism and Rewritten History.
Americans have since watched it unfold on the news.
Children have been and are being taught that America is racist, that love of country is Nationalist Supremacy, that there is no such thing as deviant behavior, and that locking up criminals is wrong.
Perhaps the biggest lie in the propaganda being disseminated during this internal war for the very soul of our Sovereign Nation that America is going through is the fact that they try to convince us that a small minority of useful idiots actually represent the political and cultural ideology of the majority of Americans.
Not yet.
One might already believe that is a fait accompli if one stays on Social Media for any length of time.
There has been a lot of money spent to implant these useful idiots into the heart of Social Media to shout down Conservatives and those who believe in American Traditional Faith and Values.
The thing about useful idiots is that they don’t even realize that they’re being used.
If they were to win in this attempt to radically change America (and I don’t believe that they will), they’re going to find out what the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks found out:
Political Ideologues make promises they have no intention of keeping and FREE MONEY always comes at a cost to the receiver.
Just ask a member of the Russian Proletariat.
Oh, and speaking of useful idiots, while you’re in Russia, say hello to Brittney Griner for me.
Fewer pastors say they will incorporate patriotic displays and messages into their Sunday services this Fourth of July weekend, but overall, a slight majority still plan on honoring both God and America at church.
A Lifeway Research study found just over half (56%) of Protestant pastors support showing patriotism at church during Independence Day weekend. Of those, 27% strongly support such displays.
Roughly two in five pastors (42%) disagree, and a small fraction — 2% — say they aren’t sure.
That marks a slight decline from a similar study conducted by Lifeway Research in 2016, which found 61% of pastors supported using patriotic displays in their worship services.
The study, released June 28, surveyed 1,000 U.S. Protestant pastors in September 2021. Each interview was completed by the senior or sole pastor or minister at a church, and responses were weighted by region and church size to more accurately reflect the population.
Pastors with graduate degrees were less likely to use patriotic elements in their services compared with pastors who either had no degree (70%) or a bachelor’s degree (67%)
Denominational pastors, meanwhile, were also less likely (48%) to incorporate patriotism into their worship services compared with 64% of Evangelical pastors, according to the survey.
It appears that some of America’s Faith Leaders have forgotten their American History….and the need for patriotism.
Christianity has played a predominant role in the building of our nation. In fact, the Capitol building itself was used for church services, even before Congress moved into the building, and continued to be used for Sunday Church Services until well after the Civil War.
The approval of the Capitol for church was given by both the House and the Senate on December 4, 1800, with House approval being given by Speaker of the House, Theodore Sedgwick, and Senate approval being given by the President of the Senate, Thomas Jefferson, whose approval came while he was still officially the Vice- President but after he had just been elected President.
Jefferson attended church at the Capitol while he was Vice President 5 and also throughout his presidency. The first Capitol church service that Jefferson attended as President was a service preached by Jefferson’s friend, the Rev. John Leland, on January 3, 1802. 6 Significantly, Jefferson attended that Capitol church service just two days after he penned his famous letter containing the “wall of separation between church and state” metaphor.
U. S. Rep. Manasseh Cutler, who also attended church at the Capitol, recorded in his own diary that “He [Jefferson] and his family have constantly attended public worship in the Hall.” Mary Bayard Smith, another attendee at the Capitol services, confirmed: “Mr. Jefferson, during his whole administration, was a most regular attendant.” She noted that Jefferson even had a designated seat at the Capitol church: “The seat he chose the first Sabbath, and the adjoining one (which his private secretary occupied), were ever afterwards by the courtesy of the congregation, left for him and his secretary.” Jefferson was so committed to those services that he would not even allow inclement weather to dissuade him; as Rep. Cutler noted: “It was very rainy, but his [Jefferson’s] ardent zeal brought him through the rain and on horseback to the Hall.” Other diary entries confirm Jefferson’s attendance in spite of bad weather.
…Jefferson was not the only President to attend church at the Capitol. His successor, James Madison, also attended church at the Capitol. 14 However, there was a difference in the way the two arrived for services. Observers noted that Jefferson arrived at church on horseback 15 (it was 1.6 miles from the White House to the Capitol). However, Madison arrived for church in a coach and four. In fact, British diplomat Augustus Foster, who attended services at the Capitol, gave an eloquent description of President Madison arriving at the Capitol for church in a carriage drawn by four white horses.
The series of cacophonous thuds you just heard were the “I’m-smarter than-you” Atheists from both sides of the aisle, falling off their chairs. You see, they will argue until they are blue in the face that Jefferson and Madison were not Christians, and our founding documents were not based on a Judeo-Christian system of beliefs.
Then, they go out to feed the unicorn in their backyard.
Jefferson told his friend, William Bradford (who served as Attorney General under President Washington), to make sure of his own spiritual salvation:
[A] watchful eye must be kept on ourselves lest, while we are building ideal monuments of renown and bliss here, we neglect to have our names enrolled in the Annals of Heaven.
The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend all to the happiness of man.
The practice of morality being necessary for the well being of society, He [God] has taken care to impress its precepts so indelibly on our hearts that they shall not be effaced by the subtleties of our brain. We all agree in the obligation of the moral principles of Jesus and nowhere will they be found delivered in greater purity than in His discourses.
I am a Christian in the only sense in which He wished anyone to be: sincerely attached to His doctrines in preference to all others.
I am a real Christian – that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus Christ.
But, what about Jefferson’s re-writing of the Bible, leaving out Jesus’ miracles, you ask? David Barton answered that question in 2001, in a letter to a newspaper, in response to a reader:
The reader, as do many others, claimed that Jefferson omitted all miraculous events of Jesus from his “Bible.” Rarely do those who make this claim let Jefferson speak for himself. Jefferson’s own words explain that his intent for that book was not for it to be a “Bible,” but rather for it to be a primer for the Indians on the teachings of Christ (which is why Jefferson titled that work, “The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth”). What Jefferson did was to take the “red letter” portions of the New Testament and publish these teachings in order to introduce the Indians to Christian morality. And as President of the United States, Jefferson signed a treaty with the Kaskaskia tribe wherein he provided—at the government’s expense—Christian missionaries to the Indians. In fact, Jefferson himself declared, “I am a real Christian, that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus.” While many might question this claim, the fact remains that Jefferson called himself a Christian, not a deist.
The other Founding Father whom Atheists claim was one of them is James Madison.
Per David Barton:
James Madison trained for ministry with the Rev. Dr. John Witherspoon, and Madison’s writings are replete with declarations of his faith in God and in Christ. In fact, for proof of this, one only need read his letter to Attorney General Bradford wherein Madison laments that public officials are not bold enough about their Christian faith in public and that public officials should be “fervent advocates in the cause of Christ.” And while Madison did allude to a “wall of separation,” contemporary writers frequently refuse to allow Madison to provide his own definition of that “wall.” According to Madison, the purpose of that “wall” was only to prevent Congress from passing a national law to establish a national religion.
Also, as this writing shows, Madison wanted all public officials – including Bradford – to be unashamed concerning their Christian beliefs and testimony:
I have sometimes thought there could not be a stronger testimony in favor of religion or against temporal enjoyments, even the most rational and manly, than for men who occupy the most honorable and gainful departments and [who] are rising in reputation and wealth, publicly to declare their unsatisfactoriness by becoming fervent advocates in the cause of Christ; and I wish you may give in your evidence in this way.
Did you know that Madison was a member of the committee that authored the 1776 Virginia Bill of Rights and approved of its clause declaring that:
It is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity toward each other. ?
And, per Barton, Madison’s proposed wording for the First Amendment demonstrates that he opposed only the establishment of a federal denomination, not public religious activities. The proposal reads:
The civil rights of none shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion be established.
But, wait. There’s more:
In 1789, Madison served on the Congressional committee which authorized, approved, and selected paid Congressional chaplains.
In 1812, President Madison signed a federal bill which economically aided a Bible Society in its goal of the mass distribution of the Bible.
Finally, throughout his Presidency (1809-1816), Madison endorsed public and official religious expressions by issuing several proclamations for national days of prayer, fasting, and thanksgiving.
So, if you run into one of those individuals who, when it comes to accepting the Faith of our Founding Fathers, proves that denial is not just a river in Egypt, you can respond with one or all of three things:
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